Your Hate Mail brings together ten years of Scalzi’s best and most popular blog
posts — on topics ranging from politics to writing to scifi to cats
(preferably, ones with bacon on them). Don’t like what he has to say? So much the better: As the book’s title suggests, Scalzi grades all his hate mail based on its originality before sending it back.

The Best Related Book category pertains to works that are either non-fiction or fictional, but are noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text. Scalzi beat out Farah Mendlesohn’s Rhetorics of Fantasy, Cathy and Arnie Fenner’s Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers’s The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold and Paul Kincaid’s What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction to win the award.